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Mexican-born, New York-based artist Pablo Helguera is best known for his politically infused performative works that riff on forms of pedagogy. This smart and incisive show finds him stepping back from the lectern to explore and toy with a more fund...

on December 13, 2012

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Upstairs and out of sight is a room of sumptuous beauty, a luxurious Manhattan restaurant where dining is a rarefied (and outrageously expensive) art. But Fully Committed, a frenetic whirligig written by Becky Mode currently on view at Stray Dog The...

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Talley's Folly is a play about love. Because it's a two-character play set in 1944 in the rural central Missouri town of Lebanon, it's convenient to believe it's about falling in love. If you're not paying attention, that's what you'll leave believi...

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To everything there is a season, the Old Testament's Book of Ecclesiastes tells us, including "a time to weep, and a time to laugh." December is the time to laugh. Local productions of two comedies, written within a year of each other in the early 1...

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Mark Making: Prints from Wildwood Press Massive in scale, intricate in imagery, wildly inventive in technique, the prints that comprise this survey of work by locally based Wildwood Press are nothing short of extraordinary. Founded in 1996 by Maryan...

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Mixing antique doll heads with abstract paintings, 19th-century parlor chairs, a video installation and some truly grotesque handbags fashioned from deceased animals, this inaugural exhibit at the Hinge gallery makes good on its title in high-gothic...

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So these three blue hairless mute guys show up at the Fox Theatre and spend 90 minutes trying to figure out what it is we want from them. Or maybe they're trying to help us figure out what it is we want from them? The obvious answer would be we want...

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For more than two decades, The Foreigner, which opens this week at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, has been one of the most frequently staged plays in the nation. Perhaps the comedy remains so popular because the oddball spirit of its author, La...

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NEW In the Galleries - eARThworks 2012: art for an endangered planet "When one tugs at a single string in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." This quote from naturalist John Muir, which artist Mary Beth Shaw cites as the impetus ...

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The cut-out pages and covers of old books comprise the dominant material thread in this exhibit of new work by St. Louis-based artist Jon Cournoyer. A large print of a swirling night sky framed by dark trees -- an image extracted from an anonymous vi...

on November 22, 2012

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Imaginary Jesus is the story of one man -- the author and main character, Matt Mikalatos -- and his quest to forge a closer, more personal relationship with Jesus. To do so, Matt (Robert Thibaut) teams up with the Narrator (Chad Morris), a projectio...

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This group show featuring three printmakers -- Cranbrook artist-in-residence Randy Bolton, University of Kansas professor Michael Krueger, and Washington University instructor and master printer Tom Reed -- is a nature hike on acid. Forests are rende...

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The title is a grabber, provocative and catchy. Radium Girls might betoken futuristic science fiction. But D.W. Gregory's play, which is being presented by Saint Louis University Theatre, is rooted in historical fact. Set in the decade between 1918 ...

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This Wide Night is a bleak smash-up of a play. Chlo Moss based her two-character drama, currently being staged by the West End Players Guild, on interviews she conducted with British women recently released from prison. Instead of joy and relief at...

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There's something magical about a play when its individual elements work in concert. The alchemy of script, actor, director, set designer, musicians and technical crew hitting their marks at the same speed all night can create a hidden presence that...

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The first in a series of exhibitions, presented at the Luminary Center for the Arts' temporary space on Cherokee Street and devoted to exploring how artists and alternative art spaces survive in a precarious economy, How to Build a World That Won't ...

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Sheila Payton's new play, Facing the Shadow, which is receiving its debut production from the Black Rep at the Missouri History Museum, is set in a compelling locale: Baltimore, Maryland, in 1859. As the nation lurched toward the onset of the Americ...

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Some stories just don't go away; they burrow under the skin and linger. Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 family drama A Raisin in the Sun is such a story. Her account of a black family that buys a home in a segregated Chicago neighborhood was torn from the...

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The first in a series of exhibitions, presented at the Luminary Center for the Arts' temporary space on Cherokee Street and devoted to exploring how artists and alternative art spaces survive in a precarious economy, How to Build a World That Won't ...